Subject: Re: kill(1) a pid after timeout
To: None <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: Oliver Gould <ogould@olix0r.net>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 07/24/2007 20:56:07 
On 2007-07-24 22:00 -0500, Jarle Greipsland wrote:

> Potentially this would be even more useful as an extension to the
> existing pgrep(1)/pkill(1) utilities?

I agree.  An option for p@(grep|kill) would provide a useful abstraction
for selecting processes by runtime, user, tty, etc without lots of shell
glue.

  - Oliver